SPIIC+ Lecture Concert no.16
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Barry Guy (UK) - double bass
Maya Homburger (CH) - baroque violin
From Baroque to Contemporary Music to Improvisation
In the workshop concert and in conversation with Vlatko Kučan.
For the SPIIC+ Lecture Concert no.16, we welcome Maya Homburger and Barry Guy, two extraordinary musical personalities who are among the world's most important interpreters in their field. But this evening will focus on precisely this question: which 'subject' are we talking about? In a unique synthetic bridge, Homburger and Guy transcend four centuries of music history and bring the music of H.I.F. Biber together with the soundscapes of György Kurtag and contemporary improvisational music in a congenial interweaving and an exciting dialog and unexpected 'harmony'.
"Very old and very new music, written music and improvisation, unusual instrumentation, contrasting and yet, on closer inspection, not so distant playing styles combine in this very clear, transparent music to create meditations of iridescent beauty. Something truly new melts out of the poles, something that remains enigmatic but is anything but hermetic..."
Program:
Veni Creator Spiritus: Hymn 9th century
H. I.F. Biber (1644 - 1704): "Annunciation" from the Rosary Sonata No. 1
Barry Guy: "Hommage à Max Bill" for violin and bass
György Kurtág (*1926 ): "In Memoriam László Mensáros"
J.S. Bach (1685-1750): Prelude and Allemande from the Sonata in E minor BWV1023
Barry Guy: "Peace Piece" for solo bass
H. I. F. Biber: "Die Kreuztragung" from the Rosenkranz Sonata No. 9 with Interlude by Barry Guy
Barry Guy: "Five Fizzles for S. B." for solo bass
H. I. F. Biber: Rosary Sonata No. 10 "The Crucifixion"
Maya Homburger, was for many years one of the concertmasters of John Eliot Gardiner's "English Baroque Soloists", but after many years in England and Ireland she has settled back in Switzerland. Her specialties are performances of H.I.F. Biber's rosary sonatas and J.S. Bach's chamber music and cantatas. In duo concerts with Barry Guy she concentrates on the combination of early and new music up to improvisation - her first duo CD "Ceremony" was released on ECM, the CD "Dakryon" with guest artist Pierre Favre, percussion on the MAYA label and the duo CD "Tales of Enchantment" on Intakt Records. The complete recording of H. I. F. Biber's famous Rosary Sonatas can also be found on the MAYA label, as well as a series of three CDs with J. S. Bach's solo sonatas and partitas paired with Barry Guy's compositions for solo violin "Inachis", "Aglais" and "Lysandra".
Barry Guy is an innovative bassist and composer whose creative diversity in the fields of jazz improvisation, chamber music, orchestra and solo concertos is the result of an unusually versatile education and his love of experimentation, underlined by his dedication to the double bass and the ideal of musical communication. He is the founder and artistic director of the London Jazz Composers Orchestra and the BGNO (Barry Guy New Orchestra). In 2014 he founded the Blue Shroud Band. His concert works for chamber orchestra, chamber music groups and soloists have been performed many times. In 2016, Barry Guy received an honorary doctorate from the University of Middlesex, London, and was also appointed Visiting Professor at the Rhythmic Conservatory in Copenhagen.
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SPIIC+
SOCIAL PERFORMANCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY IMPROVISATION & CREATIVITY
Improvisation as a universal method and attitude of artistic production and a bridge to interdisciplinary collaboration.
In recent years, improvisation has increasingly become the focus of an interdisciplinary discourse:
it is no longer understood as a special form of artistic practice, but increasingly as an independent position in the sense of a fundamental ethical attitude and as a universal creative method not only of artistic production.
As part of the ligeti-zentrum - artistic research lab, SPIIC+, under the direction of Vlatko Kučan, explores these questions and sheds light on aspects of artistic improvisation in theory and practice.
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